We have recently enjoyed participating in the SQL Saturday Orange County with the seminar on Data Masking While introducing new and exciting feature of Dynamic Data Masking, Microsoft has created some confusion in many people on when and how to use it...

For those who missed the presentation on Saturday, April 2 in Orange County SQL Saturday, the link to the presentation is posted on a schedule
You can also join our webinar, part 2 with hands-on masking demo:
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Virginia Mushkatblat is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting...

Once again, the organizations are reminded that payments for non-compliance are not limited to a small fee The enterprise-wide risk assessment and analysis is needed to understand where to put protections against the breaches...

Table Partitioning in SQL Server
Brandon Leach | DBA for SurveyMonkey, SQL Server Professional, Co-Organizer for the New England SQL User's Group, and Speaker
City of Calabasas Library 200 Civic Center Way Calabasas, CA 91302
November 19th, 6:30 pm
Do you find you have tables and indexes that have grown really large? Are you moving around a lot more data than you used to? Are your windows for jobs and maintenance getting tighter? If you answered yes to any of these questions, partitioning may be for you!
Partitioning allows us to break a table or index down into smaller more manageable chunks It can enable us to perform maintenance on just part of a table or index...

FTC and seven international partners boost international dialogue and create an initiative to boost cooperation among countries in handling consumers' privacy Thanks to enabling new technology, the complaints can now go international with more privacy enhancement...

This is an especially rich event with many sessions devoted to SQL Server stack security and privacy as well as Business Intelligence We are hoping to meet all of you at the event, and will be happy to explain how you could use SSIS for data masking as well as reporting services...

As major companies and their clients discover, the first number announced for the data breaches don't show the scale of the disaster The following article follows up on the dynamics of the data breaches
Dynamics of Data Breach Discovery...

In our second installment of the #GenXTT I was excited to bring a bunch of smart GenXers together to espouse their views on privacy After the Millennial Think Tank Session on Privacy, I wanted to determine if there were differences in perception about Privacy among GenXers, especially given the increasing influence of technology...

Sources in the financial industry tell KrebsOnSecurity they have traced a pattern of fraud on customer credit and debit cards suggesting that hackers have tapped into cash registers at Natural Grocers locations across the country The grocery chain says it is investigating “a potential data security incident involving an unauthorized intrusion targeting limited customer payment card data...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and then Friday—Black Friday—kicks off the official start of the holiday shopping season Retailers love the materialistic frenzy of the holiday season, and so do cybercriminals...

In an era where massive data breaches have caused some consumers anxiety while swiping their credit card, keeping out hackers is a hot topic among students learning to build and maintain the systems that often fall victim
HushHush Presents at Security Day Fullerton...

Mount Sinai is the latest in a string of hospitals to compromise patient confidentiality Over the summer, the Star revealed that GTA hospitals provided records without authorization to baby photographers and in one case, to RESP marketing companies...

Your medical information is worth 10 times more than your credit card number on the black market
Last month, the FBI warned healthcare providers to guard against cyber attacks after one of the largest U...

Data breaches at health care systems are on the rise, experts say, and these will become more common in the coming years as more patient data goes digital
Community Health Systems, a large health care group that has 206 hospitals in 29 states, said Monday that a cyberattack originating in China resulted in the theft of Social Security numbers and other personal data belonging to 4...

After taking nearly two months to flesh out a patient data breach involving inappropriate internal access, UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) of Worcester, Mass announced this week that it had alerted more than 2,400 affected patients of the breach...

Mark April 9th – April 13th, 2016 on your calendar and join us at the 2016 Spring Conference, the leading Information Systems IT governance, control, security and assurance event for the Southern California area The ISACA Los Angeles Chapter provides affordable quality training on fundamental information systems auditing concepts and emerging technology risks, and an opportunity to network with other auditing and security professionals...

Facebook Co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg made a rare posting on his Facebook page to assure his followers that he takes government threats to Internet security seriously
“I’ve called President Obama to express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future,” he wrote in the note, most likely in relation to recent revelations that the National Security Agency has been hacking into computers and weakening security standards...

Government IT leaders believe continuous monitoring and advanced analytics can help agencies better understand their networks and security
Government IT leaders believe the growth of big data analytics may provide new tools in combating cyber security threats, according to a new report...

The race to cloud computing is exposing private customer information and sensitive corporate data on an unprecedented scale The demand for quicker and cheaper application development is driving this trend...

The Review Group would like to thank the many people who supported
our efforts in preparing this Report A number of people were formally
assigned to assist the Group, and all performed with professionalism, hard
work, and good cheer...